The Radio Amateur's Handbook
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill
Applied Electronics by Gray
High Fidelity Circuit Design by Crowhurst
High Fidelity Techniques by Newitt
Electronic Transformers and Circuits by Reuben Lee
Transformers for Electronic Circuits by Grossner
Vacuum Tubes by Spangenberg
Thermionic Valves by Beck

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Van Der Bijl's The Thermionic Vacuum Tube is an excellent early text. Maybe a bit hard to find, but a great read. And, by extension, Maxwell's treatises on electricity and magnetism, which are just beautiful.

Smoking-amp:
Wow, Electronic Transformers & Circuits. Been looking for that one long time.
Also Crowhurst. (turns green w/envy)

Victor

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There is a book that I use a lot that never gets mentioned and it is Basic Electronic Circuits, Second Edition by Donald Leach, published by John Wiley and Sons. It is the best book overall I've found for basic instruction in designing circuits. It explains things like Kirchhoff's Laws, network theorems (Thevenin's, Norton's and Millman's), mesh and node equations (ever wondered what SY was talking about?). AND it has very good chapters on resistance, capacitance and inductance (explains how an inductor stores energy) and it explains power in ac circuits and resonance. I wish everyone a copy of this text for Christmas,

John

P.S. I'll probably get in trouble for crossposting, but I will be putting up for sell some books of which I have duplicates, many of them listed in this thread.

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When an LP gets scratched it still makes sense; when CDs crack up they go completely senile and gibber incontinently. - Hugo Williams

One of my favorites. Very practical (i.e. useful) information but at an adequate depth.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned my all time favorite fun-reading text:

Alfred A. Ghirardi's "Radio Physics Course," 1930, 1931, 1932. Something of a standard way of analyzing tube circuits emerged fairly early and most texts adopted that perspective, but this book seems to predate that. In truth, 1930 was not all that early in the game, but it seems like a very early book none the less. It's an interesting text and is not too hard to find in the US.